The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-03-31

oners removed from the Jail in safety, and
no person was injured in the operation.
EVERY few weeks the country Is informed
that the Tongue River Indians, OF Montana,
are starving to death. A recent dispatch
from Agent Upshaw was TO the effect tina:
no Indians under that agency have starved
to death, and that they are drawing their
customary rations.
IT was reported that SIX persons were
captured in st. Petersburg one day re-
Gently in connection with the plot to as
sassinate the Gar and hanged the next
| day. DeGaief, the man who murdered
Lieutenant Colonel Sudeikin, the Russian
chief of police, three years ago, and who
was suspected Of having planned the plot
against the Cars life, was said to have
been one of the six.
AT the passenger meeting Of the Central
Traffic Association at Chicago recently con-
siderable ill-feeling was developed over the
refusal of the Chicago a. Grand Trunk road
to agree to the abrogation of second class
rates. The abolishmen: of commissions was
also discussed and a report made 10 the
| managers that it was not feasible, as sew
eral of the lines refused to agree to the re-
| form.
THE demands Of the dissatisfied employees
Of the North Chicago rolling mills have
been conceded almost in their entirety.
A DREADFUL tragedy has been reported
from Hoia Shib Chen, China, twenty miles
northeast of Hongchow. Over 800 tramps
appeared at the village and greatly irrita-
| ted the inhabitants. The villagers inveigled
the whole body into temple, and during
the night set fire to it. Only forty of the
occupants of the building escaped. The re-
malnder were burned to death.
THREE unknown men, evidently laborers,
were struck by a Baltimore & Ohio express
train recently near Leighton Station, Pa.
Two of them were killed outright, the third
fatally injured.
THE liabilities of the suspended firm of
James and John Hunter, of Philadelphia,
are reported to amount to S500,00O.
THE grand jury at Greenfield, Mass, has
indicted Frank W. Foster, ex-town treas
urer, for embezzlement from the town
| treasury, the amount taken aigregating
Sl50OO.
LETTERS containing money, ,afts, etc.
to the value of sl25,0O0 were ste len few
days ago from an Astrachan (Russia) post
Office by nlhilist, who dug an underground
passage to the building and entered it bS
cutting through the floor.
AT Methodist Episcopal donation party,
-
recently the floor gave way and ten OF
twelve persons were severely injured, be
ing bruised, burned and scalded and sus-
tanning fractures of the limbs.
THERE are now 277,137 applications for
pensions before the Pension Bureau. They
| are pouring in at the rate of 6.0O0 per week.
PAT GUNNAN and Mat Turney, Loys and
stowaways, were found the other day in
the hold of the steamer Kansas al Boston,
fourteen days from LivepooL The matches
were fastened down and covered with
freight. They were without food Q I'D drink
and were in q critical condition acn res
cued.
An extra session of the Missouri Legisla
ture has been called for May IL.
JACKSON MARION was hanged at + eatrice,
Neb., on the 25th, for the murder IF John
Cameron in 1872.
A STRIKE of cotton handlers at New Or.
leans on the 25th involved 10000 men i'll
various branches of the trade.
TIE missing steamer Scotia veached
Long Island on the 18th and Was run
ashore, her machinery having giveI. out.
THE coal managers at New York recently
decided to restrict the production of anthra
cite for the month of April to 2, ,250, 900 tons.
AT Viewer Neustadt, Lower Austria,
powder mill exploded the other day, blow.
ing three soldiers to atoms. The explosion
caused a great scare in the surrounding
country, the people believing an earthquake
had occurred.
FEARS Of an impending revolution were
reported from Madrid, Spain, on the 18th.
WEED q Co.'s mill at Binghamton, n. Y,
was burned recently. Loss, $1,000.
BY collision on heavy grade near Lee
tonia, o., the other morning. two cars of an
express tram were wrecked and the en-
gineer killed and six persons injured. An
attempt to repair an air brake was the
cause.
A DISPATCH to the Boston Chamber Of
Commerce reported that the yacht Daunt-
less had won the ocean race, having arrived
off Roche's point on the 18th. She was
little over thirteen days on the passage.
THE jury IN the breach of promise case OF
Mrs. Harriet A. Moore against Moses
Hopkins, the well-6nown millionaire, which
was recently on trial at Redwood City,
Cal, returned verdict for SO, 600 in favor
of the plaintiff. The suit was for S251, 900.
BUSINESS failures Dun's report) for seven
days ended March "A numbered for the
United States 2lS, for Canada Al total, 259
against 290 the previous week, and 22l fol
the corresponding week of last year.